Fluke infertility: The late cost of a quick swim

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-62

  Bailey, Sarah Lou ^a,b   Price, James ^a,b   Llewelyn, Martin ^a,b  

^a ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; OVARY CYST; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRAVEL;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SWIMMING; TRAVEL;

EID: 78650945909     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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